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Your task is to stand straight not to be held straight.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.
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Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
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Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
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Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.
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Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.
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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
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All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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